a truly amazing puppet show

holyoutlaw was kind enough to post this:

"La visite du Sultan sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps" - Royal de Luxe - 2005

The visit of the Sultan on his elephant. At the bottom of each page there are links for the next set of photos.

Stunning.

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I did a bit of research using the google translator, and it looks like this is a celebration by the city of Nantes for the 100 year anniversary of the disappearance of Jules Verne! It looks absolutely amazing. That would have been one heck of a thing to make a vacation of...I love it!

meme from de_gustibus

So, if you could describe me in five words, what would those words be?

Stick this on your journal and I'll reply with mine for you.

summer reading list?

shared by jillbertini

Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing.

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What really gets me about this, is the very idea that books are harmful. This is why you would never see a liberal list like this...because we just don't think that way.

I haven't read many of these, but now I really really want to. I wish I could find a wealthy patron who would pay me to just read for a year.